Brandon Dimmel

A recent report revealed that many businesses still have no plans to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, leaving their ailing PCs at higher risk for malware. That may change, however, with a new report suggesting that Windows 7 is five times less ... likely to be infected by malware than its predecessor. Windows 7 Five Times More Secure than XP The study comes from Microsoft's own Security Intelligence Report, which is released annually. The report not only revealed that Windows 7 is five times more secure against malware than a machine running Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), but it was also ... (view more)

Dolphin Text Editor Menu 1.9 Dolphin Text Editor Menu expands the functionality of any text editor. It doesn't replace your current text editors -- it makes them better. Dolphin Text Editor Menu will work with any software where you can type ... sentences or paragraphs. This includes Visual Studio, OpenOffice Writer, MS Word, memo-boxes in Firefox, Notepad, Wordpad, HTML / PHP editors, and more. http://www.animal-software.com FirefoxDownloadsView 1.1 This utility displays the list of the latest files that you downloaded with Firefox. For every download record, the following information is ... (view more)

A woman from Malaysia was recently cajoled out of $366,000 by a Facebook con artist, according to reports. And while several arrests have been made, most of the cash remains at large. Overseas 'British Citizen' in Need of Bank Account The man behind ... the scheme allegedly told the woman he was a British citizen in need of access to a bank account in order to cash in a $1.53 million contract with Malaysia's national oil and gas company, Petronas. Here was the kicker: the man in question said he couldn't afford the service and insurance charges associated with the agreement, and was looking for ... (view more)

Earlier this week Microsoft announced plans to buy up popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, Skype. The Redmond-based software giant agreed to pay $8.5 billion in the deal, which will bring all 170 million of Skype's users under ... Microsoft control. The deal marks the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history. (Source: go.com ) "Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent statement. "Together we will create the future of real-time communications so people can easily stay connected to family, ... (view more)

TestDisk TestDisk is free data recovery software. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and / or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error ... (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is easy to do. http://www.cgsecurity.org PhotoRec 6.12 PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera ... (view more)

Microsoft unveiled a modest Patch Tuesday collection of fixes for its software products this month. However, at least a few of the patches address security holes that experts say could be easily exploited. On Tuesday, Microsoft's series of May ... patches addressed just three bugs, only one of which is marked "critical," the company's highest security rating. The most serious patch is labeled MS11-035 and is intended to fix a vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), a component in every edition of Windows Server. Critical Update Not Automatically Deployed The way in which ... (view more)

Trillian Astra 5.0.0.32 Trillian is an all-in-1 chat program that allows you talk to friends on different chat services including google chat, yahoo messenger, AOL, and more. The new version also provides updates for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ... similar services. http://www.trillian.im JimIP Switcher 1.0 Most offices are secured by firewalls which require complicated proxy settings to use the internet. This creates a problem for many users who take their laptops to office and later find it hard to undo the proxy settings to use the internet when they come back home. A solution to this ... (view more)

A French security firm says it now knows how to hack its way into Google's Chrome browser. If the claim turns out to be true, it would represent a surprising weakness for a web browser considered by some to be the safest available. The hack report ... comes from France's Vupen, which says it was able to sidestep Chrome's defenses -- including the highly reputable sandbox design -- as well as Windows 7's built-in anti-exploit infrastructure. Report Stuns Security Experts The exploit is "one of the most sophisticated codes we have seen and created so far, as it bypasses all security features ... (view more)

CurrPorts 1.9 CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays a list of all currently opened TCP / IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, ... including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it. http://www.nirsoft.net GeeMail 1.0 Have you ever wished you could run a special application for gmail, and use the browser only for browsing? Even if ... (view more)

FavoritesView 1.3 FavoritesView displays the list of all your Favorties (of Internet Explorer browser) and bookmarks (of Netscape / Mozilla browsers) on a single page. Each line in the list specifies the title of the item, the URL address, the ... created / modified date of the bookmark item, and the folder name. http://www.nirsoft.net WinUpdatesList 1.31 WinUpdatesList displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer. For hotfix updates, this utility also displays the list of files updated with these hotfixes. Additionally, it allows you to ... (view more)